BSNL suffers data breach; sensitive info of users up for sale on dark web

Chennai: State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has allegedly suffered a data breach as a threat actor has claimed to have “critical information” pertaining to the company’s users, ET has learnt.

The threat actor using the alias ‘Perell’ has disclosed a “sample dataset” on a dark web forum, including sensitive details of fibre and landline users of BSNL. The dataset contains about 32,000 lines of data and the threat actor claimed that the total number of lines across all databases amounts to approximately over 2.9 million.